Total Crime Rate
2719.8 per 1,000
All offences · Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Violent Crime Rate
1259.6 per 1,000
Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Priory Place area has the highest crime rate of 81 local areas in Cheylesmore , and the highest crime rate of 1,012 local areas in Coventry .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Priory Place (CV1 5SE) in the last 12 months was 2719.8 per 1,000 residents and was 3323.7% higher than the Cheylesmore average (79.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 550 offences recorded. The least common crime was Other crime with 12 cases , up 9.1% compared to 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Burglary ( 62.5% YoY). The sharpest decline was Theft from the person ( -30.8% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 791 (≈ 1259.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 16.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -8.4% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Priory Place (CV1 5SE), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Shopping Area, where police recorded 499 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Burges (182 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Coventry| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Vehicle crime | Hay Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Bus/Coach Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Bus/Coach Station | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Bus/Coach Station | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Cope Street | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Trinity Lane | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Trinity Lane | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Greyfriars Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Vehicle crime | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Shoplifting | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Parking Area | — |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Greyfriars Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Greyfriars Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Bicycle theft | Greyfriars Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Robbery | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Bicycle theft | Greyfriars Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Greyfriars Lane | — |
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